Roller Skates is a book by Ruth Sawyer that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1937.

Living with them Lucinda experiences unprecedented freedom, exploring the city on roller skates and making friends with all types of people.

Lucinda enlists Officer M'Gonegal to stop the bullies who knock down Tony's father's fruit-stand and steal the fruit.

But the cold and snow of winter keep her cooped up indoors, and eventually a restless Lucinda acts out and gets sent home from school in disgrace.

"[2] Sawyer's family was well-to-do, and she was raised by older parents who insisted she adhere to strict rules and routines.

According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography "juvenile literature at this time generally did not contain some of the events and behavior which occurred as natural processes in Lucinda's experiences."